Edgar C. Taylor is a Lecturer in the Department of History, Archaeology and Heritage Studies at Makerere University, where he has taught since 2020. He is a historian and anthropologist whose scholarship focuses on twentieth-century Uganda, with particular attention to urban culture, racial politics, archives, labour, and institutional life. His work is deeply engaged with questions of memory, knowledge production, and the politics of the archive in postcolonial Africa, and it frequently bridges historical and anthropological methods.
Dr. Taylor has published widely in leading journals and edited volumes, including Africa, History and Anthropology, Journal of Eastern African Studies, and Comparative Studies in Society and History. He is a co-editor of Reading Archives, Memory and Method from Makerere University: Debates and Insights (2025) and Decolonising State and Society in Uganda: The Politics of Knowledge and Public Life (2022). Beyond publishing, he has co-curated major exhibitions at the Uganda National Museum, served on the editorial board of the Makerere Historical Journal, and held a Visiting Fellowship at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame, in 2025.
Taylor, Edgar C.; Erlank, Natasha; Khanakwa, Pamela; Moloi, Tshepo
Report: Makerere/University of Johannesburg postgraduate writing workshops: a reflection Journal Article
In: Makerere Historical Journal, vol. 6, no. 1, 2026.
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Khanakwa, Pamela
“We came as Colonizers”: Baganda Settlers’ Claims Over Mbale County, 1910s-1941 Book Section
In: Nabutanyi, Edgar Fred; Mwine, Anna Adah; Taylor, Edgar C.; Ahikire, Josephine; Mugumya, Levis; Khanakwa, Pamela (Ed.): Reading Archives, Memory and Method from Makerere University: Debates and insights, Makerere University Press, Kampala, Uganda, 2025.
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Reading Archives, Memory and Method from Makerere University: Debates and insights Book
Makerere University Press, Kampala, Uganda, 2025.
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Mafumbo, Charlotte Karungi
Archiving Indigenous Knowledge Traditional Birth Attendants Use as Complementary Obstetric Systems in the Toro Region in Uganda Book Section
In: Nabutanyi, Edgar Fred; Mwine, Anna Adah; Taylor, Edgar C.; Ahikire, Josephine; Mugumya, Levis; Khanakwa, Pamela (Ed.): Reading Archives, Memory and Method from Makerere University: Debates and Insights, pp. 189–210, Makerere University Press, Kampala, Uganda, 2025.
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Archival Ambivalence: Status and Secrecy in Ugandan State Archives Book Section
In: Nabutanyi, Edgar Fred; Mwine, Anna Adah; Taylor, Edgar C.; Ahikire, Josephine; Mugumya, Levis; Khanakwa, Pamela (Ed.): Reading Archives, Memory and Method from Makerere University: Debates and Insights, pp. 231–254, Makerere University Press, Kampala, Uganda, 2025.
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Muhoozi, Christopher; Sekito, Zaid; Kannamwangi, Deo K.
Abazeeyi B’eBama: Memory, Honour and Compensation of Uganda’s World War II Ex-Servicemen, 1945 to 2021 Book Section
In: Nabutanyi, Edgar Fred; Mwine, Anna Adah; Taylor, Edgar C.; Ahikire, Josephine; Mugumya, Levis; Khanakwa, Pamela (Ed.): Reading Archives, Memory and Method from Makerere University: Debates and Insights, pp. 93–111, Makerere University Press, Kampala, Uganda, 2025.
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